Eva Medina Canada waits in her prison cell, thinking back over interweaving her lonely life of street-walking deprivation and sexual beleaguerment, and tries to recall her five days with Davis and his murder

A collection of twelve provocative short stories, first published in 1977, explores the emotional and intellectual lives of a a diverse cast of characters, in such tales as 'The Women,' 'The Coke Factory,' 'Jevata,' and 'White Rat,' which deals with the identity and relationship issues confronting a black man who can pass for white. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Product Description: An elegant and strikingly stylistic, wordless vampire story, done completely in red ink. Intriguing and clever, it follows the adventure of a man who receives a curious letter containing polariods of vampire victims and a map to the small town where it lives.

Product Description: This exquisite book-length poem is set in colonial Brazil, following the destruction of Palmares, the last of seven fugitive slave enclaves beset by the Portuguese. Amid the flight and reenslavement of its inhabitants emerges the love story of Anninho and Almeyda, former African slaves...read more

Product Description: Harlan Jane Eagleton is a faith healer who travels from town to town converting sceptics, restoring minds and bodies. Harlan tells her story from the end backwards, drawing us deeper into her world and the mystery at the heart of the tale - the story of her first healing.

Ursa Corregidora, singing of fear, pain, and longing in a Kentucky cafe cannot pass on the corruption, lust, and hatred of the Portuguese slaveholder who fathered both her grandmother and mother

Product Description: The powerful novelist here turns penetrating critic, giving us—in lively style—both trenchant literary analysis and fresh insight on the art of writing. “When African American writers began to trust the literary possibilities of their own verbal and musical creations,” writes Gayl Jones, they began to transform the European and European American models, and to gain greater artistic sovereignty...read more

Product Description: The powerful novelist here turns penetrating critic, giving us—in lively style—both trenchant literary analysis and fresh insight on the art of writing. “When African American writers began to trust the literary possibilities of their own verbal and musical creations,” writes Gayl Jones, they began to transform the European and European American models, and to gain greater artistic sovereignty...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)